How To Use Colonel In A Sentence

Ronald Martin retired from the United States Air Force Reserve as a Lt. Colonel. Mastin, Ronald L.
Jacinto killed one man while defending his honor and now plans to take the life of the Colonel.
But, Colonel Hackworth, does that then re-change your former predictions? CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003
Instead, he underplays and it's a joy to watch him assume just the right mask of deferential blandness to manage his Colonel.
How should a lieutenant colonel in the Marines address a captain in the navy? Times, Sunday Times

I won't be surprised if the striking ‘colonels’ have been generously compensated for their brazen defiance of military norms.
The Colonel bowed his head and whispered a prayer of thanksgiving.
Oswald felt heartfeltly sorry to wound the good Colonel's feelings, but he had to remark that he had only done his duty, and he was sure no British scout would take five bob for doing that. The Wouldbegoods
Colonel Kenton now saw the unhandsomeness of his leaving his wife at all, and he beheld in its true light his shabbiness in not going back to tell her he had found his old friend and was to bring him to dinner. A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories
Third, James Stuart, major-general, and colonel of the thirl j-- first regiment of foot, married Lady Margaret Hume, daughter of Hugh,. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
He became a pilot in 1921 and was eventually promoted to lieutenant colonel during World War II.
Colonel Blood has an unerring eye. Man of Honour
He sends him out a "colonelling," and yet never brings him within sight of war. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
Colonel Tilghman, one of my aids-de-camp, will have the (p. 088) honour to deliver these despatches to Your Excellency; he will be able to inform you of every minute circumstance which is particularly mentioned in my letter. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
He was finally appointed lieutenant colonel and authorized to raise a regiment.
Blowitz said that wasn't the half of it: le Colonel Flashman had been a distinguished ally of France in China; Montauban would never have got to Pekin without me. Watershed
I have gone along with your idea and gone onstage wearing same, to be stripped off by a colonel. Times, Sunday Times
And because Colonel Morse had advised him that he would be lecturing to “huge audiences in vast auditoria,” in the weeks before his departure, Oscar engaged the services of an expensive expert on oratory to give him elocution lessons. Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
Ye are my Clanswoman until ye wed wi' Colonel Fitzwilliam.
He is accused of complicity with the leader of the coup, former Colonel Gregorio Honasan.
Now Hodges is expected to save his old friend, who went on to become a textbook colonel.
He also complains about the 6000 buckboards for the colonels, thousands of saddles for the cavalry, and hundreds of airplane engines that were never used in the war. Mamas Don't Let your Babies grow up to be Soldiers!
Because of the colonel's sudden and unexplained departure from the regiment, fact was augmented by fiction.
A statement from the army and defense spokesman on Wednesday says three generals and one colonel have been suspended for what the government termed "indiscipline. The Seattle Times
The customs officer was a colonel in the Royal Artillery. CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe
Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.
As a general rule, however, military intellectuals tend to face mandatory retirement as lieutenant colonels or colonels, just as they are achieving full intellectual maturity.
This screen was placed there at the time she found herself obliged to take to her chamber; and in the depth of our concern, and the fulness of other discourse at our first interview, I had forgotten to apprize the Colonel of what he would probably see. Clarissa Harlowe
The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
And, of note, the air reservists flew fully a third of those hours (the people that Colonel Scanlan and Colonel McCague represent) safely and effectively bringing great credit to our organization in underlining the importance of the reserves to the Canadian forces. Canada's Air Force in Transition
In the first third of a speech that lasted more than 90 minutes, Colonel Qaddafi focused on what he called the inherent unfairness of the United Nations, which gives the five permanent members of the Security Council far more authority than the nations in the General Assembly. Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
The men, in uniforms of a major and lieutenant colonel, got past security into a compound. The Sun
Most of all, the Colonel was intrigued that the wet blanket had absorbed the energy of the pistol shots.
The heart of any Army is not its generals, but its young sergeants, captains and colonels.
Why, there is the knight your father, and my lady your mother; and there is her father that is half crazy with his religion, and her aunt that wears eternal black grogram for that unlucky Colonel Christian; and there is the Countess of Derby that would serve us all with the same sauce if we were thinking of anything that would displease her. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
They suggested Colonel Wong may have been detained because, as head of military intelligence, he failed to uncover the plot.
Two officers stood beside it, a paratroop captain and an Army Air Corps colonel. A SEASON IN HELL
He sat back in the open coach, "hunched" together in an ungainly heap, looking neither to the right nor the left, evincing no consciousness of the existence of the shouting throngs that lined the pavements ten deep, other than by raising, with the lifeless precision of a mechanical toy, the cocked hat he wore as part of the uniform of a British colonel. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
Colonel Brandon mentions wearing one, and Marianne takes this as a sign he is old and sickly, and incapable of being a lover.
Colonel Fergusson had his eyes closed and was breathing out through his nose in long smooth puffs like a bellows.
Colonel Boone had but to hear him out and bare his shoulders for such other blows which Judge Wright sought to pelter him, and we will hear with what blow he was driven from his post as Indian Agent. The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail
On the afternoon following the colonel's visit to Mink Run, old Peter, when he came for Phil, was obliged to stay long enough to see the antics of the mechanical mule; and had not that artificial animal suddenly refused to kick, and lapsed into a characteristic balkiness for which there was no apparent remedy, it might have proved difficult to get Phil away. The Colonel's Dream
So the Colonel shot back, 'Well, you are relieved of your command.'
The 7th Army had its headquarters in Karlsruhe, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Baden, and was commanded by Colonel General Josias von Heeringen. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
Togolese Colonel Yark Damehane has accused the 'Movement citoyen pour l'alternance' or Citizens's Movement for Change to which the youths belong of inciting citizens to violence as it vows to use "any means" in order disrupt the polls nationwide. AllAfrica News: Latest
March Colonel James Doolittle and his raiders train at Eglin AAF in Florida for their B-25 bombing raid on Tokyo, which they conduct on April 18.
Was it that blufliing ribband, which is now the perpetual ornament of your perfon? or was it that regiment, wliich you afterwards (a thing unprece - dented among foldiers) fold to Colonel Gifborne? or was it that government, the full pay of which. you arc contented to hold, with the half-pay of an Iri (h Colonel? The genuine letters of Junius
Monday, the Colonel came back to lunch with a big grin on his face.
The Defense Department announced on Friday that the President has formally nominated three colonels for promotion to Brigadier General.
Colonel Casper's staff, aviators, and soldiers executed this mission with great professionalism.
He had discussed this with a certain Colonel Hazelden who had been operating as an agent in the Tobruk area.
Major Mallaby-Kelby was a keen pushful officer, immensely eager to maintain the well-known efficiency of the Brigade while the colonel was away; but he took me into his confidence on another matter. Pushed and the Return Push
Besides, the colonel had been on duty for the past twenty-two hours, taking army-issue Dexedrine pills to stay alert, and now he needed a little exercise to calm himself down. The Omega Theory
The Colonel was invariably festooned in the fruits of Bo-Bo's labours and - if unusual - her labours were most accomplished.
The speech of presentation was made by our friend, “Colonel” James S. Norton, in what the rural paragrapher would have described as “the most felicitous effort of his life,” and the wonderful collection was commended to Mr. Larned's grateful preservation by the judgment of Mr. Henry Field, whose own choice selection of paintings is the most valued possession of the Chicago Art Institute. Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
He could see the torment hiding beneath the colonels calm exterior.
The Colonel is a self-fashioned sleuth who seems to belong to a bygone era.
After 12 years of teaching ethics at the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, I have learned a few lessons from the lieutenant colonels and colonels I've taught.
The Colonel reached up and pressed the switch hidden in the candle sconce, the concealed panel swung open. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
The idea that some Colonel Sanders type in a society that forbid slaves from reading would write to his former fieldhand and expect an intelligible reply is absurd. Rad Geek People's Daily
Lieutenant Colonel McSally commands twenty - seven aircraft and more than sixty crew members.
So there I was - Colonel Harry Paget Flashman, late of the 11th Hussars, 17th Lancers and the Staff, former aide to the Commander-in-Chief, and now acting-sowar and rear file in the skirmishing squadron, 3rd Cavalry, Bengal Army, and if you think it was a mad-brained train of circumstance that had taken me there - well, so did I. Fiancée
“It refers to the dissipation of your fortune to the advantage of a certain Madame Jeanrenaud, the widow of a bargemaster — or rather, to that of her son, Colonel Jeanrenaud, for whom you are said to have procured an appointment, to have exhausted your influence with the King, and at last to have extended such protection as secures him a good marriage. The Commission in Lunacy
Hannibal is the father figure, the career military man, the only one to attend West Point and it takes some serious time to rise to the rank of Colonel.
And one of the greatest men I ever met in my life was a fellow named Colonel Phil Hart, who later became a United States senator from the state of Michigan, who ran errands for all of us who were bedfast; who provided baseball tickets -- Detroit Tigers -- the Briggs family owned the Detroit Tigers then; his wife was a Briggs. Remarks At World War Ii Memorial Breakfast Reception
Jerrold denied introducing Blake, either to Mr Dermott or to Colonel Howard, with any intention of pecuniary advantage to anyone. TANK OF SERPENTS
Yep, the Colonel argues that young people need more character, lest the void usually filled by common sense is colonised by the personality traits of looney toons / pokemon/ninja turtles/power rangers.
“The main mission is [vaccine] development for the American war fighter,” says Colonel Samuel Martin, commander of Walter Reed in Kenya. Containment Strategy
They got so thick at last, that old Jonas would say, Gilbert had gospel on his side, and did no more than gospel told him to do; but we none of us gave much credit to what he said, more by token our vicar had a brother, a colonel in the army; and as we threeped it many a time to Jonas, would he set himself up to know the gospel better than the vicar? that would be putting the cart afore the horse, like the French radicals. Sexton's Hero
And for no other reason than that they farmed along the track that Colonel Neville pretended to have taken. MOONDROP TO MURDER
Colonel Boucher singing the bass of "A few more years shall roll," felt his mind instinctively wandering to the cock-fight the evening before, and depressedly recollecting that a considerable number of years had rolled already. Queen Lucia
Sergeant Rothiere bellowed at them in a mix of French and Kanarese, and his sudden authority calmed the men who gathered around Colonel Gudin. Sharpe's Tiger
On that date, Colonel James Montgomery took several companies of the regiment on a raid to the undefended and nearly deserted town of Darien.
The third volume was written by a team of Russian military academicians led by Colonel Professor Valentin Runov, with contributions from officers who had served during the war.
Colonel Andrews agreed that if we would grade and crosstie the road his company would iron and provide the rolling stock. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
Colonel Lin Foh stepped from the bathroom, clad only in a towel around his waist.
Those memories were chased away when Jim thought about how he, Tychus, and the rest of the Devils had been slated for resocialization by their unit commander, Colonel Javier Vander-spool. Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
Well, colonel, replace the meerschaum in your broom-moustache face and I'll tell you: The Face of Green?
The King conferred revised sentences - notably four full pardons and a reinstatement - on the group, which included three majors and two lieutenant colonels.
It was rumored that she was brevetted a colonel, but there is no evidence of this.
A Brazilian colonel had a fazenda (farm or ranch) and regularly flew down to it.
Whilst the chamade was beating, Colonel Cotton, sent by General Wills, rode up the street, and alighted at the sign of the Mitre: the firing meantime had not ceased from several of the houses: the common soldiers were ignorant of the real state of the case, and believed that General Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
The colonels are hitting the enemy with forty to fifty air strikes a day.
Just listen to the white noise and stare at the carnage, which begins with what starts out as a well-coordinated assault on a Bolivian drug lord's compound by a Special Forces unit led by "Colonel" Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a veteran so grizzled that his grizzles have grizzles. Politics
I mentioned the circumstance in the presence of the officers, at the time expressing my doubts if it were not smallpox, and was not a little surprised when I was told by the Colonel that he had frequently heard you mention the cow-pox as a disease endemial to Gloucestershire, and that if a person were ever affected by it, you supposed him afterwards secure from the smallpox. II. Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1799
Melrose and Von Behrens honours crowded each other -- here was the thin old silver "shepherdess" cup awarded that Johanna von Behrens who had won a prize with her sheep, while Washington was yet a boy; and here the quaint tortoise-shell snuff-box that a great prince, homeless and unknown, had given the American family that took him in; and the silver buttons from Lafayette's waistcoat that the great Frenchman had presented Colonel Horace Murison of the "Continentals. The Beloved Woman
The Colonel, his face a mask of tension, seemed to have used up most of his reserves of energy in his earlier sallies. KARA KUSH
The footage shows the Colonel playing with one of his granddaughters. Times, Sunday Times
All those who were in any manner connected with the contemplated expedition disclaimed the idea of treasonable designs, averring that, if such were the views of Colonel Burr, they had been deceived. Memoirs of Aaron Burr
75 years ago last Saturday, Colonel James Fitzmaurice co-piloted on the first successful east-west transatlantic flight.
The Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi repeated his call for the release of hostages.
Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility.
Indeed, had she and Colonel Leek been sharing confidential affections, he might have felt a prick of jealousy.
Colonel Ormonde looked at her with amazement; her greatest charm to men such as he was her dolliness, and this was a new departure. A Crooked Path A Novel
He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers.
He gained the rank of Colonel.
Having the high rank of lieutenant general, there was no command for him after Vicksburg, so he resigned his lieutenant generalcy to accept an appointment as a colonel in the artillery division.
The colonel paraded his men before the Queen.
Colonel Cathcart was a slick, successful , slipshod, unhappy man of thirty - six .
And we, the Southerners who are called the cavaliers, are led by a puritan," said Lieutenant-Colonel St. Hilaire. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
I thought that here was a fit illustration for a fairy tale; then I remembered the Colonel's account of how he had awakened in the act of entering this romantic plaisance, and I was touched anew by an unrestfulness, by a sense of the uncanny. Bat Wing
In the past year I have met midshipmen, Air Force cadets, colonels at the Army War College, officers in the Pentagon, air and naval crews at sea, reserve and retired officers, and a variety of civilian defense analysts.
He had queried it with the Colonel, who had listened patiently, quietly, unresentful of a subordinate's representation. DARE CALL IT TREASON
He had always laughed at what he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon himself. Sole Music
At Fort Knox, the Armor Center trains troopers, tankers, and leaders from privates to colonels - over 20,000 a year, as a matter of fact.
The Colonel said the soldiers would have been wearing helmets or berets, not floppy hats as in the photographs.
` ` The Colonel's in an unco kippage, '' said Mrs. Flockhart to The Waverley
The Major later decided that such a formidable opponent must certainly be an officer, and christened him ‘Colonel Bogey,’ a term still heard today.
One cannot ignore the similarities between the Savoy attack and the resent Mumbai attack," says Colonel (retd) Jonathan Fighel of the International Policy Centre for Counter-Terror, Israel. The model for the Bombay attacks?
Five Americans were also killed in the last week, one a lieutenant colonel. Times, Sunday Times
Even so, the Home Counties retired colonels and blue-rinse cake-bakers are proving unpersuadable.
She arrived at 17, "extraordinary of my parents to let me", and after the Colonels took over Greece and her father's business "went belly-up", worked six days a week in the Mayfair Hotel as a room-service telephonist to pay for her O and A-levels: "It was rather fun," she says. Vicky Pryce: 'I thought we were a unit'
When they arrived, William sent a cadie to give notice to Colonel Gordon that he was arrived in town; but was detained upon business with a stranger, to whom he would be happy to introduce him, as he was an acquaintance of his father's, and had seen him within the last few years. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
When Rodriguez retired two years ago from the Air Force as a colonel, his three air-to-air kills (two over Iraq in 1991 and one over Kosovo) were the most of any American fighter pilot on active duty. The Last Ace
No, the generals will not issue an order because of the misgivings of one colonel.
Will the retired army colonel put in an appearance today? The Times Literary Supplement
Manchester men, of the class who run at the aristocracy, the army, and the navy just as a bull runs at a red rag, will perhaps be very angry at our saying this; but we speak as we have found mobs at fires, and chatty fustian jackets in third class trains on the Lancashire and Yorkshire line; and, although a friend protests against the opinion, we still think that the ordinary Manchester millhand looks on his employer with about the same feelings that Mr. John Bright regards a colonel in the guards. Rides on Railways
The senior military advisor to the film was Colonel Joseph Conmy, brigade commander at the actual battle.
Peering severely through her lorgnette at Everson she said ‘I'm afraid Colonel Everson that even men your age are in need of constant house-training‘.
His adjoint was the Colonel Comte de Mazancourt, his aide-de-camp The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
Two to five battalions form a brigade, which is commanded by a colonel and has from 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers.
Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
But Garry was mistaken in this diagnosis of his, as events turned out; but, ere he could say another word, just then as the colonel was going to make a reply to him, the skipper hammered on the deck with a marling - spike to attract attention and give a hail at the very top of his voice that made us all jump, it was so loud and unexpected. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
The surrender was made possible through the mediation of Kananga Mayor Elmer C. Codilla, who turned over Aligato to Lt. Colonel Roberto S. Capulong, Battalion Commander of the 19th IB, on March 18, 2009. Philippines Social Integration Program draws insurgents back into folds of law
The colonel had packed the ammunition in silica gel, guarding against condensation, the worst enemy of the rifleman. KARA KUSH
Colonel Lewis put a tapered extension at the muzzle end so that blast overpressure will cause a vacuum and draw cooling air from the receiver end through the shroud as the gun is being fired.
There are several interesting issues here, such as the much-vaunted discovery that Army colonels increasingly self-identify as Republicans.
There is one man that everyone is talking about at this hour, and it is indeed Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadhafi, who used his maiden address to the General Assembly to basically rail against the institution and effectively rail against what he called the inequality of the body. CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009
Colonel Sakafi had heard, knew that the hunter had reached his machan, and had nothing to report. KARA KUSH
Catching a mercenary's outstretched torso with the broad surface of his shield, the Colonel hurled his adversary high overhead.
Therefore Carpalin and Gymnast were ordered by Pantagruel to go for the soldiers that were on board the Cup galley, under the command of Colonel Maul-chitterling, and those on board the Vine-tub frigate, under the command of Colonel Cut-pudding the younger. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
In the course of the day the Chinese _Amban_ had announced to Colonel Dermot that he did not wish to leave so soon and desired to remain longer in Ranga Duar; but the The Jungle Girl
I could hear a distinguishable "gulp" eminating from Colonel W-S's throat. Sudan Battle Report
In early 1942 she was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards, at sixteen she carried out her first public engagement, when she inspected the regiment.
This was an area that they were still a little bit concerned that there might be some what they call paramilitary resistance and the commanding officer, Colonel Richard Mills (ph), described the approach as controlled aggression. CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003
She had not heard a word of Colonel Grand's minacious overture. The Rose in the Ring
He was hauled before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Stevenson, and summarily dismissed.
Colonel Bradley said it takes constant fine-tuning of processes to ease workloads.
Despite his claims to impartiality, the colonel indulged Captain Charles Lewis, brother of Andrew Lewis, who had helped get him his colonelcy. George Washington’s First War
Colonel Storrs is the very last man to be called militaristic in the narrow sense; he is a particularly liberal and enlightened type of the sort of English gentleman who readily served his country in war, but who is rather particularly fitted to serve her in politics or literature. The New Jerusalem
Taking a long draught from his mug of ale, Colonel Paccar leaned back in his chair, and let his gaze wander over his four charges.
It is a brass plate inscribed with the name of a passenger on the ship, Colonel Edward James.
By this time, I had become the executive officer of the regiment, a lieutenant colonel and all that.
My granddad was a veteran who had served as a Colonel in Guadalcanal; he was three years gone in the Pacific theater. CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008
Colonel Sanders is ubiquitously American, but today's New Zealander, when asked what ‘KFC’ stands for, will intone ‘Kiwi For Chicken’.
There are many officers in the embassy who are equivalent to general officers and colonels.
M'Callum's, in which there was no bed-covering but the skins of wild beasts; during the contest the major was killed; but after it was over, the colonel retired to Jamaica, with much wealth, acquired by depredation. A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade
“What the Colonel said he meant,” a steam-shovel engineer remembered. The Path Between the Seas
Yes, it was the headline achievements that had impressed Colonel Baxter.
It's depressingly like the cartoon of a Colonel Blimp character sitting in an armchair beneath the huge head of a white rhino, explaining that he ‘thought he'd better bag one fast in case this conservation business doesn't work out.’
A slight tremor shook the earth, and the Colonel awoke in the guest room.
Colonel Honeywood [13] are obliged to sell their commands at half-value, and leave the army, for drinking destruction to the present Ministry, and dressing up a hat on a stick, and calling it Harley; then drinking a glass with one hand, and discharging a pistol with the other at the maukin, [14] wishing it were Harley himself; and a hundred other such pretty tricks, as inflaming their soldiers, and foreign The Journal to Stella
Scotch regiment then besieged in Trailsund, saying they heard there was a ship come from Denmark to them laden with tobacco pipes, “One of our soldiers,” says Colonel Robert Munro, “showing them over the work a morgenstern, made of a large stock banded with iron, like the shaft of a halberd, with a round globe at the end with cross iron pikes, saith, A Legend of Montrose
I built a fearsome reputation through stickling over trivialities, and set the seal on it by publicly flogging a colonel (because one of his men was late for roll-call) at the first of the great fortnightly reviews which the Queen and court attended. Flashman's Lady
Thanks to the kindness of Captain Buckley, of the Scots 'Fusileer Guards, and Colonel Somerset, who lent us means of conveyance for our "impedimenta," I was able to move up in one day. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
Once we got used to the word halal, no explanation became necessary for the giant KFC billboard which went up in Dearborn, Michigan, proudly stating below the beneficent smile of Colonel Sanders: "Now Serving Halal. The Reality Check
The second moral is: there needs to be an independent audit and investigation of the colonel and his various bank accounts.
Regiments are usually commanded by a colonel and are sometimes made up of soldiers from a particular city or part of the country.
"Affirmative, Colonel," was the reply. "All targeting solutions are locked in. And the groundside system's prepared to coordinate with us on a time-on-target basis."
Colonel Dumoulin compares them to highly trained switchboard operators.
The colonel, son of John and Mary Kennedy of Clifton Park, has earned two Legion of Merits, a Bronze Star Medal, a defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, a Joint service Commendation Medal, a Joint Service Achievement Medal, a Navy-Marine Commendation Medal, a Navy-Marine Achievement Medal and 15 Air Medals. Timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
Married herself to "a famous bore", Nancy led a miserable life until an affair with a Free French colonel beckoned her to Paris and sexual and artistic liberation.
In a defiant, rambling speech in the capital, Tripoli, the army colonel who has ruled the North African nation for nearly 42 years appealed to supporters to take to the streets by the millions in order to cleanse Libya, home by home, village by village,'' of what he described as a misguided movement inspired by foreigners. Boston.com Top Stories
The colonel, signing to his guests to follow, led the way to the apartment occupied jointly by himself and the major, which, although only a kind of casemate hollowed in the rock, nevertheless wore a general air of comfort. Off on a Comet
The military's fraternization policies prohibit active duty personnel from marrying local civilians, military spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Josslyn Aberle told the newspaper.
Of course I assisted him as well as I could under the circumstances, but as he limped along towards the companion-hatchway, the leader of the desperadoes, that villainous "marquis," who I thought had met with his just deserts long since, not having seen him for some little time among the other fighters, most unexpectedly jumped from the rigging in front of the colonel and aimed a vindictive blow at him with a marline-spike. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
The dinner ruined, Colonel Everson and the wizard repaired to the smoking-room to light their calming pipes.
McCormack himself was given a direct commission as a full colonel and entered active duty as deputy chief under Clarke.
Von Kleist jaegers prowl the woods, directed by Colonel von Kleist and his aide on horseback. Freikorps von Kleist (FC12)
RA ranks within the 2nd Training Regiment at Fort Dix boasted just one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, a first lieutenant and three shavetails.
Cheeks empurpled, spit launching in all directions, eyes afire with outraged vanity, the Colonel will have none of your treachery.
He is also under the sway of rakish Colonel Sanderson, whose claims to "biblicism" seem to be of the superficial variety; Mrs. Sanderson, however, evinces considerably more enthusiasm. The Biblicals
The Colonel lifted the phone and dialed his superior.
At Uruba, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Chemonges explained how Mogadishu's once highly developed cityscape is providing problems today. Reporter's Notebook: Mogadishu
Riel also secured the consent of Colonel Black, the commanding officer at Fort Assinniboine, to allow the Metis to overwinter at the Big Bend of the Milk River.
From then Colonel Risner, Commander Stockdale, our cag (ph), Jerry Denton (ph). CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2004
In UNACO's case that means their director, Colonel Malcolm Philpott. CODE BREAKER
Wounds to the genitals and lower urinary tract - so-called genitourinary injuries - accounted for 11 percent of wounds over the last seven months of 2010, up from 4 percent in the previous 17 months, according to data presented by John B. Holcomb, a trauma surgeon and retired Army colonel. Report reveals steep increase in war amputations last fall
I assure him that only the stuffiest of armchair colonels could object to the match. Times, Sunday Times
Locals like to boast that "Abkhazia used to beat the world record on the number of secret agents per capita, " says Lavrik Mikvabia, a colonel in the Abkhaz border guard.
'And the guards march past their colonel in chief, Cheryl Cole-née-Tweedy, in their sustainably sourced uniforms, the miniature wind turbines that replaced the busbies whirring gently in the breeze…' It doesn't bear thinking about. Lucy Mangan: What is it with Tories and royalty?
Most of all, the Colonel was intrigued that the wet blanket had absorbed the energy of the pistol shots.
we insisted on the reinstatement of the colonel
I get Lisa Marie and the Colonel and we all three go round the front to wait for the paperboy. GRACED LAND
The problem is that many military generals and colonels and lieutenant-colonels do their own thing.
Both the pewter and Sheffield Plate collections benefited from large bequests particularly that of Colonel Croft Lyons.
He is the second retired British colonel to be killed in Kenya in the past two weeks. Times, Sunday Times
From the team behind Meatopia and Pig Island, this first-ever two day boozevent's kicking off the summer by bringing top-notch brewers together with purveyors of some of the city's best food, lining their stations along a stretch of Gov Island known as Colonel's Row for its 19thC Officer's Quarters, a perfect setting for you to get historically housed. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Colonel Grahame, you will permit him to honour me with his society, and to take his poor disjune here, especially considering, that even his most sacred Majesty did not pass the Tower of Tillietudlem without halting to partake of some refreshment.” Old Mortality
Similar instances could be given from every country, and one of the most instructive is to be found in the writings of Colonel F.N. Maude, C.B., Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women
Increasingly he relied on a core group of delegates: the Dulles bros, Averill Harriman, Dean Acheson, and Colonel Goodpaster to run the ship.
An honorary colonel, he often accompanied cadets on training camps, and was chairman of their military education committee. Times, Sunday Times
Colonel Hamilton Smith, the able writer on dogs, does not acknowledge some of these wild races, but thinks they are what he calls feral, or domestic dogs which have regained their liberty, and have subsisted for many generations on their own intelligence. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
The state of the poll still worse; Lord Beaufort twelve in arrear, and Colonel Beaufort twenty-one. The Semi-Attached Couple
Colonel Pastukhov, is a bald, barnacled veteran of 35 years in State Security.
There are many Colonels who, if they were in Hawaii or Korea for their Bn Commands, did not deploy for the GWOT then, and find themselves in Bde Command going on their first deployment with their troops who are on their 3d or 4th tour. One Woman's Emotional Story - SpouseBUZZ
A major is immediately below a lieutenant-colonel in rank.
Henry, an outstanding officer and one of the youngest colonels in the Army Air Corps, pinned the eagles on his shirt collar at the age of 28.
During a mission that was led by the Colonel, I received a radio message to return home.

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